US20150311625A1 - An Apparatus Providing One or More Socket Contacts for Contacting an Inserted Flexible, Planar Connector; A Method - Google Patents
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- H01R12/00—Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, specially adapted for printed circuits, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB], flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, e.g. terminal strips, terminal blocks; Coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures; Terminals specially adapted for contact with, or insertion into, printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures
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- H01R12/00—Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, specially adapted for printed circuits, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB], flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, e.g. terminal strips, terminal blocks; Coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures; Terminals specially adapted for contact with, or insertion into, printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures
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- Embodiments of the present invention relate to an apparatus providing one or more socket contacts for contacting an inserted flexible, planar connector; a method.
- one of the components is a flexible planar connector, such as for example a flexible circuit board, then it may be push-fitted into a surface-mounted socket comprising socket contacts.
- an apparatus comprising: a housing comprising: an upper surface and a socket cavity, the socket cavity extending underneath the upper surface, from an opening at the upper surface, to provide one or more socket contacts; and at least one retainer, within the socket cavity, configured to be automatically actuated to retain a flexible planar connector comprising connector contacts, for contacting the socket contacts underneath the upper surface, inserted along the socket cavity.
- a method comprising: providing a socket cavity at least partially underneath a surface, wherein the socket cavity has an opening at the surface; providing electrical connection to one or more socket contacts in the socket cavity; and automatically controlling a curved path of a flexible planar connector from the opening, through the socket cavity, by providing resilient structures that guide and retain the flexible planar connector.
- FIG. 1 illustrates an example of an apparatus operable as a low-profile or sunken socket for a flexible planar connector
- FIG. 2 illustrates an example of an apparatus operating as a low-profile or sunken socket for a flexible planar connector
- FIG. 3 illustrates an example of a retainer for retaining a flexible planar connector in the apparatus
- FIG. 4 illustrates another example of a retainer for retaining a flexible planar connector in the apparatus
- FIGS. 5A , 5 B, 5 C illustrates (during insertion, after insertion and during removal of the flexible planar connector) an example of an apparatus that operates as a low-profile or sunken socket for a flexible planar connector;
- FIG. 6A illustrates the housing of the apparatus illustrated in FIGS. 5A , 5 B and 5 C;
- FIG. 6B illustrates a contact arrangement of the apparatus illustrated in FIGS. 5A , 5 B and 5 C;
- FIG. 7 illustrates an example of an apparatus sunken within a substrate.
- the Figures illustrate an apparatus 2 comprising: a housing 4 comprising an upper surface 6 and a socket cavity 8 , the socket cavity 8 extending underneath the upper surface 6 , from an opening 10 at the upper surface 6 , to provide one or more socket contacts 12 ; and at least one retainer 14 , within the socket cavity 8 , configured to be automatically actuated to retain a flexible planar connector 16 comprising connector contacts 18 , for contacting the socket contacts 12 underneath the upper surface 6 , inserted along the socket cavity 8 .
- FIG. 1 illustrates an example of an apparatus 2 that operates as a low-profile or sunken socket for a flexible planar connector 16 .
- the apparatus 2 is configured to enable physical and electrical contact between socket contacts 12 housed within a sunken socket cavity 8 and connector contacts 18 of the flexible planar connector 16 .
- the flexible planar connector 16 is a flexible circuit board.
- the apparatus 2 comprises a housing 4 .
- the housing 4 defines an internal socket cavity 8 that receives the flexible planar connector 8 .
- the socket cavity 8 is ‘sunken’. At least a part of the socket cavity 8 , the connector cavity 81 , extends underneath an upper surface 6 of the housing 4 .
- the connector cavity 81 comprises one or more socket contacts 12 . In this example the connector cavity 81 extends parallel to the upper surface 6 .
- the upper surface 6 comprises an opening 10 to the socket cavity 8 .
- An intermediate cavity 82 is configured to route the flexible planar connector 16 from the opening 10 to the connector cavity 81 .
- the socket cavity 8 and opening 10 are configured to facilitate insertion of the flexible planar connector 16 into the intermediate cavity 82 through the opening 10 at an acute angle to the upper surface 6 , for example, at an angle of less than 60 degrees.
- the opening 10 comprises a curved edge 83 configured to facilitate insertion of the flexible planar connector 16 into the cavity through the opening 10 .
- a roof portion 83 of the connector cavity 81 curves through the intermediate cavity 82 to form a first side 84 of the opening 10 .
- a second side 85 of the opening 10 opposing the first side of the opening 10 curves in an opposite sense to the curve of the roof portion 83 .
- a cross-sectional area of the socket cavity 8 decreases from the opening 10 to the connector cavity.
- the cross-sectional area of the opening 10 in a plane parallel to the upper surface (normal to a first direction) is greater than a cross-sectional area of the connector cavity in a plane normal to a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and running through the connector cavity 81 .
- the connector cavity 81 is configured to enable a friction fit of the flexible planar connector 16 , against the socket contacts 12 , in the connector cavity 8 .
- the socket contacts 12 may be associated with the roof 83 of the connector cavity 81 and/or with a floor 86 of the connector cavity.
- the apparatus 2 comprise at least one retainer 14 , within the socket cavity 8 .
- the retainer 14 is configured to be automatically actuated to retain the flexible planar connector 16 when it is inserted along the socket cavity 8 .
- the retainer 14 opposes removal of the inserted flexible planar connector 16 from the socket cavity 8 and therefore facilitates maintenance of physical and electrical contact between socket contacts 12 housed within the socket cavity 8 and connector contacts 18 of the flexible planar connector 16 .
- the apparatus 2 is configured to have a first configuration when the flexible, planar connector 16 comprising contacts is not inserted, in which the at least one retainer 14 is not actuated.
- the apparatus 2 is configured to have a second configuration when the flexible, planar connector 16 is inserted along the socket cavity 8 to make contact between the connector contacts 18 and the socket contacts, in which the at least one retainer 14 is actuated and retains the flexible, planar connector 16 .
- the retainer 14 may retain the flexible planar connector 16 using one or more friction fits. Examples of friction fits are illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 4 .
- the housing 4 comprises an overhanging portion 7 . Its upper side provides the upper surface 6 and its lower side provides the wall 83 of the socket cavity 8 .
- the overhang portion 7 terminates at the opening 10 .
- a retainer 14 within the socket cavity 8 , is provided by one or more resiliently biased supports 20 .
- the resiliently biased support 20 is biased to press an inserted flexible planar connector 16 against an abutment portion 87 of the overhang portion 7 .
- the overhang portion 7 is configured such that a reactive force R provided to the inserted flexible planar connector 16 by the abutment portion 87 is off-set, in a direction-of-insertion D of the flexible planar connector 16 , from a supporting force S provided to the inserted flexible planar connector 16 by the resiliently biased support 20 .
- This creates a torque which pinches the flexible planar connector 16 and which may also bend the flexible planar connector 16 .
- the resiliently biased support 20 consequently defines a curved path for the flexible planar connector 16 through the socket cavity 8 to the socket contacts 12 .
- a retainer 14 is provided within the connector cavity 81 .
- the retainer 14 comprises a downwardly extending guiding ramp 30 configured to force the flexible planar connector 16 down (away from the roof 83 of the connector cavity 81 ) and an upwardly extending guiding ramp 32 configured to force the flexible planar connector 16 up (towards the roof 83 of the connector cavity 81 ).
- the upwardly extending guiding ramp 32 is aligned with the downwardly extending guiding ramp 30 along the direction-of-insertion D of the flexible planar connector 16 , but is off-set, in the direction D, from the downwardly extending ramp 30 .
- the upwardly extending guiding ramp 32 follows after the aligned downwardly extending guiding ramp 30 in insertion direction D.
- the retainer 14 retains the flexible planar connector 16 using a plurality of friction fits between the guiding ramps 30 , 32 and the flexible planar connector 16 .
- One or more of the guiding ramps may be part of one or more socket contacts 12 .
- a reactive force provided to the inserted flexible planar connector 16 by the downwardly extending guiding ramp 30 is off-set, in the direction D, from a supporting force provided to the inserted flexible planar connector 16 by the upwardly extending guiding ramp 32 .
- the guiding ramps 30 , 32 therefore define a curved path for the flexible planar connector 16 .
- FIG. 5A illustrates an apparatus 2 similar to that described previously in relation to FIGS. 1 and 2 and similar references refer to similar features.
- the apparatus 2 comprises a retainer 14 described with reference to FIG. 3 and also a retainer 14 described with reference to FIG. 4 and similar references refer to similar features.
- the housing 4 illustrated in cross-section in FIGS. 5A , 5 B and 5 C is illustrated in perspective and cross-section in FIG. 6A .
- the housing 4 receives a contact arrangement 40 , illustrated in FIG. 6B , which comprises a plurality of separate contacts 12 within the connector cavity 81 .
- a contact arrangement 40 illustrated in FIG. 6B , which comprises a plurality of separate contacts 12 within the connector cavity 81 .
- Each of the contacts 12 of the contact arrangement is similar.
- Each contact 12 separates into a lower contact 42 and an opposing upper contact 44 .
- each upper contacts 44 extends along a length of the connector cavity 81 in contact with the roof 83 and each lower contact 42 extends along the length of the connector cavity 81 in contact with the floor 86 .
- the separate contacts 12 are arranged in parallel and are stacked, with separation between them, across the width of the connector cavity 81 .
- Each of the separate contacts 12 is formed from a unitary piece of metal.
- the upper contact 44 and the opposing lower contact 42 of a contact 12 pinch an inserted flexible planar connector 16 and one or both contact the connector contacts 18 of the flexible planar connector 16 .
- the upper contact 44 comprises the upper guiding ramp 30 which contacts a connector contact 18 .
- the lower contact 44 comprises the lower guiding ramp 32 which contacts a connector contact 18 .
- the co-operation of the guiding ramps 30 , 32 has been previously described with reference to FIG. 4 .
- each socket contact 12 comprises a pair of off-set upwardly extending and downwardly extending guiding ramps 30 , 32 .
- the upper guiding ramp 32 forms part of a cantilevered upper contact 44 .
- the cantilever provides a resilient bias that resists upward movement of the upper contact 44 .
- the lower guiding ramp 30 forms part of a cantilevered lower contact 42 .
- the cantilever provides a resilient bias that resists downward movement of the lower contact 42 .
- FIG. 5A illustrates the apparatus 2 when a flexible planar connector 16 is being inserted.
- FIG. 5B illustrates, using dotted lines, where a flexible planar connector 16 would lie after insertion.
- the cantilevers resiliently bias the socket contacts 12 against the inserted flexible planar connector 16 .
- the socket contacts 12 are resiliently deflected when the flexible planar connector 16 is inserted past the pinch point formed by the guiding ramps 30 , 32 .
- the flexible planar connector will also flex at this pinch point.
- the resilient support 20 biases the surface 22 against the inserted flexible planar connector 16 .
- the resilient support 20 is resiliently deflected when the flexible planar connector 16 is inserted past the pinch point formed by the support 20 and the abutment portion 87 of the overhang portion 7 .
- the flexible planar connector 16 will also flex at this pinch point.
- FIG. 5C illustrates how a flexible planar connector 16 may be removed from the apparatus 2 after it has been inserted.
- the overhang portion 7 of the housing 4 is deflected upwards. As a consequence, the cantilevered upper contact 44 can then upwardly flex to release the flexible planar connector 16 . As another consequence, the abutment surface 85 of the overhang portion 7 is also removed away from the support 20 releasing the flexible planar connector 16 .
- the overhang portion 7 of the housing 4 may be deflected upwards by bending the flexible planar connector back so that it overlies the connecting cavity 81 . In this position, applying a force P by pulling the flexible planar connector results in an upward force U being applied to the overhang portion. This results in upward deflection of the overhang portion 7 .
- the overhang portion 7 of the housing resiliently flexes.
- FIG. 7 illustrates how the apparatus 2 may be mounted within a substrate 100 of an electronic device 200 to provide a low-profile sunken socket.
- the substrate 100 may, for example, be a printed wiring board (PWB).
- the substrate 100 has an upper surface 102 and a cut-out aperture 104 .
- the apparatus 2 is positioned within the cut-out portion 104 so that the upper surface 6 of the apparatus 2 is substantially level or slightly raised (e.g. 0.2 mm) with respect to the upper surface of the substrate 100 .
- the first side 84 and the second side 85 of the opening 10 may be slightly raised (e.g. 0.4 mm) above the upper surface 102 of the substrate 100 .
- the contacts 12 are accessible at the surface 102 of the substrate 100 at one end of the apparatus 2 . They may provide supports at that end for positioning the apparatus 2 in the aperture 104 .
- the biased supports 20 may extend out of the apparatus 2 via apertures at the other end.
- the biased supports 20 may provide supports at that other end for positioning the apparatus 2 in the aperture 104 .
- the apparatus 2 therefore provides a socket cavity 8 at least partially underneath a surface 6 .
- the socket cavity 8 has an opening 10 at the surface 6 . It also provides electrical connection(s) to one or more socket contacts 12 in the socket cavity 8 .
- the apparatus 2 is configured to automatically control a curved path of a flexible planar connector 16 from the opening 10 , through the socket cavity 8 , by providing resilient structures 20 , 30 that guide and retain the flexible planar connector 16 .
- the apparatus 2 may have a number of advantages including none, one or more of the following:
- the apparatus 2 may provide a low insertion force (LIF) flexible printed circuit (FPC) connector socket.
- the connector socket may be sunken into a substrate 1001 (e.g. a printed wiring board (PWB)) of a device 200 .
- PWB printed wiring board
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- Embodiments of the present invention relate to an apparatus providing one or more socket contacts for contacting an inserted flexible, planar connector; a method.
- It may be desirable to easily electrically interconnect two components but less easily disconnect the two components.
- If one of the components is a flexible planar connector, such as for example a flexible circuit board, then it may be push-fitted into a surface-mounted socket comprising socket contacts.
- According to various, but not necessarily all, embodiments of the invention there is provided an apparatus comprising: a housing comprising: an upper surface and a socket cavity, the socket cavity extending underneath the upper surface, from an opening at the upper surface, to provide one or more socket contacts; and at least one retainer, within the socket cavity, configured to be automatically actuated to retain a flexible planar connector comprising connector contacts, for contacting the socket contacts underneath the upper surface, inserted along the socket cavity.
- According to various, but not necessarily all, embodiments of the invention there is provided a method comprising: providing a socket cavity at least partially underneath a surface, wherein the socket cavity has an opening at the surface; providing electrical connection to one or more socket contacts in the socket cavity; and automatically controlling a curved path of a flexible planar connector from the opening, through the socket cavity, by providing resilient structures that guide and retain the flexible planar connector.
- For a better understanding of various examples of embodiments of the present invention reference will now be made by way of example only to the accompanying drawings in which:
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FIG. 1 illustrates an example of an apparatus operable as a low-profile or sunken socket for a flexible planar connector; -
FIG. 2 illustrates an example of an apparatus operating as a low-profile or sunken socket for a flexible planar connector; -
FIG. 3 illustrates an example of a retainer for retaining a flexible planar connector in the apparatus; -
FIG. 4 illustrates another example of a retainer for retaining a flexible planar connector in the apparatus; -
FIGS. 5A , 5B, 5C illustrates (during insertion, after insertion and during removal of the flexible planar connector) an example of an apparatus that operates as a low-profile or sunken socket for a flexible planar connector; -
FIG. 6A illustrates the housing of the apparatus illustrated inFIGS. 5A , 5B and 5C; -
FIG. 6B illustrates a contact arrangement of the apparatus illustrated inFIGS. 5A , 5B and 5C; and -
FIG. 7 illustrates an example of an apparatus sunken within a substrate. - The Figures illustrate an
apparatus 2 comprising: ahousing 4 comprising anupper surface 6 and asocket cavity 8, thesocket cavity 8 extending underneath theupper surface 6, from anopening 10 at theupper surface 6, to provide one ormore socket contacts 12; and at least oneretainer 14, within thesocket cavity 8, configured to be automatically actuated to retain a flexibleplanar connector 16 comprisingconnector contacts 18, for contacting thesocket contacts 12 underneath theupper surface 6, inserted along thesocket cavity 8. -
FIG. 1 illustrates an example of anapparatus 2 that operates as a low-profile or sunken socket for a flexibleplanar connector 16. - The
apparatus 2 is configured to enable physical and electrical contact betweensocket contacts 12 housed within asunken socket cavity 8 andconnector contacts 18 of the flexibleplanar connector 16. - In some but not necessarily all examples, the
flexible planar connector 16 is a flexible circuit board. - The
apparatus 2 comprises ahousing 4. Thehousing 4 defines aninternal socket cavity 8 that receives the flexibleplanar connector 8. - The
socket cavity 8 is ‘sunken’. At least a part of thesocket cavity 8, theconnector cavity 81, extends underneath anupper surface 6 of thehousing 4. Theconnector cavity 81 comprises one ormore socket contacts 12. In this example theconnector cavity 81 extends parallel to theupper surface 6. - The
upper surface 6 comprises anopening 10 to thesocket cavity 8. Anintermediate cavity 82 is configured to route the flexibleplanar connector 16 from theopening 10 to theconnector cavity 81. - The
socket cavity 8 andopening 10 are configured to facilitate insertion of the flexibleplanar connector 16 into theintermediate cavity 82 through theopening 10 at an acute angle to theupper surface 6, for example, at an angle of less than 60 degrees. - In the illustrated example, the
opening 10 comprises acurved edge 83 configured to facilitate insertion of the flexibleplanar connector 16 into the cavity through theopening 10. - Also in the illustrated example, a
roof portion 83 of theconnector cavity 81 curves through theintermediate cavity 82 to form afirst side 84 of theopening 10. Asecond side 85 of the opening 10 opposing the first side of the opening 10 curves in an opposite sense to the curve of theroof portion 83. - A cross-sectional area of the
socket cavity 8 decreases from theopening 10 to the connector cavity. For example, the cross-sectional area of the opening 10 in a plane parallel to the upper surface (normal to a first direction) is greater than a cross-sectional area of the connector cavity in a plane normal to a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and running through theconnector cavity 81. - The
connector cavity 81 is configured to enable a friction fit of theflexible planar connector 16, against thesocket contacts 12, in theconnector cavity 8. Thesocket contacts 12 may be associated with theroof 83 of theconnector cavity 81 and/or with afloor 86 of the connector cavity. - The
apparatus 2 comprise at least oneretainer 14, within thesocket cavity 8. - The
retainer 14 is configured to be automatically actuated to retain the flexibleplanar connector 16 when it is inserted along thesocket cavity 8. - The
retainer 14 opposes removal of the inserted flexibleplanar connector 16 from thesocket cavity 8 and therefore facilitates maintenance of physical and electrical contact betweensocket contacts 12 housed within thesocket cavity 8 andconnector contacts 18 of the flexibleplanar connector 16. - Referring to
FIG. 1 , theapparatus 2 is configured to have a first configuration when the flexible,planar connector 16 comprising contacts is not inserted, in which the at least oneretainer 14 is not actuated. - Referring to
FIG. 2 , theapparatus 2 is configured to have a second configuration when the flexible,planar connector 16 is inserted along thesocket cavity 8 to make contact between theconnector contacts 18 and the socket contacts, in which the at least oneretainer 14 is actuated and retains the flexible,planar connector 16. - The
retainer 14 may retain the flexibleplanar connector 16 using one or more friction fits. Examples of friction fits are illustrated inFIGS. 3 and 4 . - Referring to
FIG. 3 , thehousing 4 comprises anoverhanging portion 7. Its upper side provides theupper surface 6 and its lower side provides thewall 83 of thesocket cavity 8. Theoverhang portion 7 terminates at theopening 10. - A
retainer 14, within thesocket cavity 8, is provided by one or more resilientlybiased supports 20. The resilientlybiased support 20 is biased to press an inserted flexibleplanar connector 16 against anabutment portion 87 of theoverhang portion 7. - The
overhang portion 7 is configured such that a reactive force R provided to the inserted flexibleplanar connector 16 by theabutment portion 87 is off-set, in a direction-of-insertion D of the flexibleplanar connector 16, from a supporting force S provided to the inserted flexibleplanar connector 16 by the resilientlybiased support 20. This creates a torque which pinches the flexibleplanar connector 16 and which may also bend the flexibleplanar connector 16. The resilientlybiased support 20 consequently defines a curved path for theflexible planar connector 16 through thesocket cavity 8 to thesocket contacts 12. - Referring to
FIG. 4 , aretainer 14 is provided within theconnector cavity 81. Theretainer 14 comprises a downwardly extending guidingramp 30 configured to force the flexibleplanar connector 16 down (away from theroof 83 of the connector cavity 81) and an upwardly extending guidingramp 32 configured to force the flexibleplanar connector 16 up (towards theroof 83 of the connector cavity 81). - The upwardly extending guiding
ramp 32 is aligned with the downwardly extending guidingramp 30 along the direction-of-insertion D of the flexibleplanar connector 16, but is off-set, in the direction D, from the downwardly extendingramp 30. The upwardly extending guidingramp 32 follows after the aligned downwardly extending guidingramp 30 in insertion direction D. - The
retainer 14 retains theflexible planar connector 16 using a plurality of friction fits between the guidingramps planar connector 16. - One or more of the guiding ramps may be part of one or
more socket contacts 12. - A reactive force provided to the inserted flexible
planar connector 16 by the downwardly extending guidingramp 30 is off-set, in the direction D, from a supporting force provided to the inserted flexibleplanar connector 16 by the upwardly extending guidingramp 32. This creates a torque which pinches the flexibleplanar connector 16 and which may also bend the flexibleplanar connector 16. The guiding ramps 30, 32 therefore define a curved path for the flexibleplanar connector 16. -
FIG. 5A illustrates anapparatus 2 similar to that described previously in relation toFIGS. 1 and 2 and similar references refer to similar features. Theapparatus 2 comprises aretainer 14 described with reference toFIG. 3 and also aretainer 14 described with reference toFIG. 4 and similar references refer to similar features. - The
housing 4 illustrated in cross-section inFIGS. 5A , 5B and 5C is illustrated in perspective and cross-section inFIG. 6A . - The
housing 4 receives acontact arrangement 40, illustrated inFIG. 6B , which comprises a plurality ofseparate contacts 12 within theconnector cavity 81. Each of thecontacts 12 of the contact arrangement is similar. - Each
contact 12 separates into alower contact 42 and an opposingupper contact 44. When placed within thehousing 4, eachupper contacts 44 extends along a length of theconnector cavity 81 in contact with theroof 83 and eachlower contact 42 extends along the length of theconnector cavity 81 in contact with thefloor 86. Theseparate contacts 12 are arranged in parallel and are stacked, with separation between them, across the width of theconnector cavity 81. - Each of the
separate contacts 12 is formed from a unitary piece of metal. - In use, the
upper contact 44 and the opposinglower contact 42 of acontact 12 pinch an inserted flexibleplanar connector 16 and one or both contact theconnector contacts 18 of the flexibleplanar connector 16. - The
upper contact 44 comprises theupper guiding ramp 30 which contacts aconnector contact 18. Thelower contact 44 comprises thelower guiding ramp 32 which contacts aconnector contact 18. The co-operation of the guiding ramps 30, 32 has been previously described with reference toFIG. 4 . - It will therefore be appreciated that each
socket contact 12 comprises a pair of off-set upwardly extending and downwardly extending guiding ramps 30, 32. - The
upper guiding ramp 32 forms part of a cantileveredupper contact 44. The cantilever provides a resilient bias that resists upward movement of theupper contact 44. - The
lower guiding ramp 30 forms part of a cantileveredlower contact 42. The cantilever provides a resilient bias that resists downward movement of thelower contact 42. -
FIG. 5A illustrates theapparatus 2 when a flexibleplanar connector 16 is being inserted. -
FIG. 5B illustrates, using dotted lines, where a flexibleplanar connector 16 would lie after insertion. - The cantilevers resiliently bias the
socket contacts 12 against the inserted flexibleplanar connector 16. Thesocket contacts 12 are resiliently deflected when the flexibleplanar connector 16 is inserted past the pinch point formed by the guiding ramps 30, 32. The flexible planar connector will also flex at this pinch point. - The
resilient support 20 biases thesurface 22 against the inserted flexibleplanar connector 16. Theresilient support 20 is resiliently deflected when the flexibleplanar connector 16 is inserted past the pinch point formed by thesupport 20 and theabutment portion 87 of theoverhang portion 7. The flexibleplanar connector 16 will also flex at this pinch point. -
FIG. 5C illustrates how a flexibleplanar connector 16 may be removed from theapparatus 2 after it has been inserted. - The
overhang portion 7 of thehousing 4 is deflected upwards. As a consequence, the cantileveredupper contact 44 can then upwardly flex to release the flexibleplanar connector 16. As another consequence, theabutment surface 85 of theoverhang portion 7 is also removed away from thesupport 20 releasing the flexibleplanar connector 16. - The
overhang portion 7 of thehousing 4 may be deflected upwards by bending the flexible planar connector back so that it overlies the connectingcavity 81. In this position, applying a force P by pulling the flexible planar connector results in an upward force U being applied to the overhang portion. This results in upward deflection of theoverhang portion 7. Theoverhang portion 7 of the housing resiliently flexes. -
FIG. 7 illustrates how theapparatus 2 may be mounted within asubstrate 100 of anelectronic device 200 to provide a low-profile sunken socket. Thesubstrate 100 may, for example, be a printed wiring board (PWB). - The
substrate 100 has anupper surface 102 and a cut-outaperture 104. Theapparatus 2 is positioned within the cut-outportion 104 so that theupper surface 6 of theapparatus 2 is substantially level or slightly raised (e.g. 0.2 mm) with respect to the upper surface of thesubstrate 100. - The
first side 84 and thesecond side 85 of theopening 10 may be slightly raised (e.g. 0.4 mm) above theupper surface 102 of thesubstrate 100. - The
contacts 12 are accessible at thesurface 102 of thesubstrate 100 at one end of theapparatus 2. They may provide supports at that end for positioning theapparatus 2 in theaperture 104. - The biased supports 20 may extend out of the
apparatus 2 via apertures at the other end. The biased supports 20 may provide supports at that other end for positioning theapparatus 2 in theaperture 104. - The
apparatus 2 therefore provides asocket cavity 8 at least partially underneath asurface 6. Thesocket cavity 8 has anopening 10 at thesurface 6. It also provides electrical connection(s) to one ormore socket contacts 12 in thesocket cavity 8. Theapparatus 2 is configured to automatically control a curved path of a flexibleplanar connector 16 from theopening 10, through thesocket cavity 8, by providingresilient structures planar connector 16. - The
apparatus 2 may have a number of advantages including none, one or more of the following: - it may be easier to insert a flexible
planar connector 16 - it may be easy to insert a flexible
planar connector 16 in a single action - it may be difficult to remove the flexible
planar connector 16 accidentally - The
apparatus 2 may provide a low insertion force (LIF) flexible printed circuit (FPC) connector socket. The connector socket may be sunken into a substrate 1001 (e.g. a printed wiring board (PWB)) of adevice 200. - Although embodiments of the present invention have been described in the preceding paragraphs with reference to various examples, it should be appreciated that modifications to the examples given can be made without departing from the scope of the invention as claimed.
- Features described in the preceding description may be used in combinations other than the combinations explicitly described.
- Although functions have been described with reference to certain features, those functions may be performable by other features whether described or not.
- Although features have been described with reference to certain embodiments, those features may also be present in other embodiments whether described or not.
- Whilst endeavoring in the foregoing specification to draw attention to those features of the invention believed to be of particular importance it should be understood that the Applicant claims protection in respect of any patentable feature or combination of features hereinbefore referred to and/or shown in the drawings whether or not particular emphasis has been placed thereon.
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